American Agriculturist, April 26,1924 
White Diarrhea 
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Remarkable Experience of Mrs 
C. M. Bradshaw in Prevent¬ 
ing White Diarrhea 
The following letter will no doubt be 
0 f utmost interest to poultry raisers 
w ho have bad serious losses from White 
Diarrhea. We will let Mrs. Bradshaw 
tell of her experience in her own words 
“Gentlemen: I see reports of so 
many losing their little chicks with 
White Diarrhea, so thought I woulc 
tell my experience. I used to lose a 
great many from this cause, tried many 
remedies and was about discouraged. 
As a last resort I sent to the Walker 
Remedy Co., Dept. 437, Waterloo, Iowa 
for their Walko White Diarrhea Remedy 
I used two 50c packages, raised 300 
White Wyandottes and never lost one or 
had one sick after giving the medicine 
and my chickens are larger and healthier 
than ever before. I have found this 
company thoroughly reliable and al¬ 
ways get the remedy by return mail. 
Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw, Beaconsfield 
Iowa.” 
Cause of White Diarrhea 
White Diarrhea is caused by the Ba¬ 
cillus Bacterium Pullorum. This germ is 
transmitted to the baby chick through 
the yolk of the newly hatched egg. 
Readers are warned to beware of White 
Diarrhea. Don’t wait until it kills half 
your chicks. Take the “stitch in time 
that saves nine.” Remember, there is 
scarcely a hatch without some infected 
chicks. Don’t let these few infect your 
entire flock. Prevent it. Give Walko in 
all drinking water for the first two weeks 
and you won’t lose one chick where you 
lost hundreds before. These letters 
prove it: 
Never Lost a Single Chick 
Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek, Ind., 
rates: “I have lost my share of chicks 
from White Diarrhea. Finally I sent for 
two packages of Walko. I raised over 500 
chicks and I never lost a single chick from 
White Diarrhea. Walko not only pre¬ 
vents White Diarrhea, but it gives the 
chicks strength and vigor; they develop 
quicker and feather earlier.” 
Never Lost One After First Dose 
Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shenandoah, 
Iowa, writes: “My first incubator chicks, 
when but a few days old, began to die by 
the dozens with White Diarrhea. I tried 
different remedies and was about discour¬ 
aged with the chicken business. Finally, 
I sent to the Walker Remedy Co., Water¬ 
loo, Iowa, for a box of their Walko White 
Diarrhea Remedy. It’s just the only 
thing for this terrible disease. We raised 
"00 thriftyhealthy chicks and never lost 
a single chick after the first dose.” 
You Run No Risk 
We will send Walko White Diarrhea 
Remedy entirely at our risk—postage pre¬ 
paid—so you can see for yourself what 
a wonder-working remedy it is for White 
Diarrhea in baby chicks. So you can 
prove—as thousands have proven—that 
it will stop your losses and double, treble, 
even quadruple your profits. Send 50c 
for package of Walko—give it in all drink¬ 
ing water for the first two weeks and 
watch results. You’ll find you won’t lose 
one chick where you lost hundreds before. 
It’s a positive fact. We guarantee it. 
The Leavitt & Johnson National Bank, 
the oldest and strongest bank in Water¬ 
loo, Iowa, stands back of this guarantee, 
iou run no risk. If you don’t find it the 
greatest little chick saver you ever used, 
your money will be instantly refunded. 
walker remedy co.. Dept. 437 
Waterloo, Iowa. 
Send me the [ ] 50c regular size (or [ 1 SI 
economical large size) package of Walko White 
. uiarrhea Remedy to try at your risk. Send it on 
r your Positive guarantee to instantly refund my 
money if not satisfied in every way. I am enclos¬ 
ing 50c (or $1.00). (P. O. money order, check 
or currency acceptable.) 
Name. 
Town. 
Sta te .R. F. D . 
in square indicating size package 
„ ed - Large package contains nearly three 
lines as much as small. No war tax. 
How We Control Parasites 
on Chicks 
W. L. Dickson 
T HERE is nothing that is more detri¬ 
mental to the health and growth of 
baby-chicks than lice and mites. They 
greatly retard their growth and lower the 
vitality to such a point that they are 
very susceptible to many diseases, espe¬ 
cially diarrhea. There is no reason for 
the large losses every year in baby chicks 
due to lice and mites, as it is really very 
easy to control them and, in fact, abso¬ 
lutely get rid of them. 
If we notice the chicks becoming listless 
or losing weight we examine them and the 
brooder house for lice and mites. Should 
we find that they are infested with head 
or body lice, we use the following mixture, 
20 drops of refined carbolic acid, 3 tea¬ 
spoonfuls of kerosene and 12 teaspoonfuls 
of olive oil thoroughly mixed. We take 
just what will stick on the end of our 
finger and rub it on the chick’s head and 
about the same under each wing. This 
will kill all of the head and body lice. 
The mite, rightly named, “the mighty 
mite,” causes much more trouble with our 
chicks than lice. They live in the cracks 
and crevices of the brooder house. They 
crawl from these places at night and suck 
the blood from the chicks. Mites can be 
readily killed by keeping brooder house 
and brooder cleaned and spraying with a 
spray made of 1 gallon of crude carbolic 
acid to 3 gallons of kerosene. 
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Buttermilk From the First 
T HAVE been hatching chicks with 
incubators for a number of years and 
find that above all things in hatching is 
good ventilation in the room where 
machine is run. We have eggs as near 
one size as possible, and keep the machine 
the same degree during the entire time of 
incubation until hatching time. The 
machine can be run a degree or two higher 
which will make the chicks come out 
faster, but if the machine gets too hot it 
weakens the chicks. Let the chicks 
remain in the machine until the 22nd day. 
At that time have brooder-room floor 
covered with sand and heat it to eighty 
or ninety degrees to receive the little 
chicks. 
No Solid Food for 36 Hours 
First we give them buttermilk and a 
drink of clean water, having the water 
just warm enough to take off the chill. 
Never feed little chicks under thirty-six 
to forty-eight hours old, then feed them 
corn bread crumbs, starting with feeding 
five times a day. Later give them some 
good mash. I prefer to give them corn 
bread to start with and then the mash. 
When they are four or five days old 
give them a little scratch feed, leaves, 
hay or some litter to give them exercise. 
Never use wheat straw with chaff as I 
have seen wheat beards work out of 
their heads and eyes, and I think that 
many little chicks are lost this way. 
Have before them at all times plenty 
of fine grit, clean water and buttermilk. 
Keep the houses clean. In this way I am 
sure you will have good success. I have 
raised chicks for poultrymen by the 
thousands and have had fine success.— 
Mrs. J. W. Branson, Virginia. 
“War Against Lice Continually** 
T ALWAYS have best results in raising 
A early chicks, sometimes raising almost 
every one. Only once, however, have I 
raised every single chick hatched m one 
flock, 21 grown chicks from 21 peeps, 
which were early. At that time I got 
75 cents a pound for some of those 
broilers when they were 12 weeks old. 
But I am gettin away from the “dollars 
saved.” 
I believe I have lost many dollars on 
my late flocks through lice. One must 
constantly war against them. Sometimes 
they are so small they can scarcely be 
seen, especially as we grow older and our 
sight fails. Last year I had especially 
good luck with my first flock of 24 peeps. 
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